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New federal data reports completion for part‐time, non‐first‐time students
Author(s) -
Hope Joan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
recruiting and retaining adult learners
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2155-6458
pISSN - 2155-644X
DOI - 10.1002/nsr.30302
Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , statistics education , medical education , mathematics education , full time , psychology , political science , medicine , engineering , mechanical engineering , law
For years, professionals who work with adult learners have found graduation rate data collected and published by the National Center for Education Statistics' Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to be lacking. Because the data included only first‐time, full‐time students, it told only a small part of the story about adults enrolled in higher education, many of whom attend part time, transfer during their education, or enter with some credits they earned during a previous college enrollment.